BPA May Finally Be Banned; Grant Achatz Likes Little Caesar’s

• The FDA is finally considering banning Bisphenol-A (BPA), the plastic-hardening agent used in food packaging that has been found in the urine of 93 percent of Americans. Their decision comes on March 31. [Forbes]

• We noted a couple weeks back how taco trucks in East Oakland have become targets for robberies just as the city has reduced its police force. Now the Times is covering the story, too. [NYT]

• Leah Garchik, always amused by precocious young foodies, reports on a first grader telling another first grader that he prefers À Côté over McDonald’s. [Garchik/Chron]

• Top Chef’s Gail Simmons had a fashion “aha moment” when she met Anna Wintour wearing a goose-fat-stained Old Navy T-shirt. Since then, she’s figured out which clothes flatter her. [NYP]

• Experimental new treatments for food allergies suggest that immunotherapy, giving patients small, regular doses of the allergen, may be effective. [Chart/CNN]

• Currently having a moment in fast-food sandwiches: pepper jack cheese. Find it at Carl’s Jr. and elsewhere. [USAT]